Julie Bishop

Quick Facts

Full Name	Julie Bishop
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jul 17, 1956(1956-07-17)
Age	68
Birthplace	Australia
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Cancer

Julie Bishop Biography

Julie Bishop is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 17, 1956 in Australia, Australia. Liberal Party politician who began serving in the Australian House of Representatives in

1998. She also served as Australia’s thirty-eighth Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce swore Bishop in as Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Julie Isabel Bishop (born 17 July 1956) is a former Australian politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018 and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2018. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Curtin from 1998 to 2019. She has been the chancellor of Australian National University from January 2020.

In the late 1980s, Robinson Cox was hired by CSR Limited to defend against compensation claims brought by asbestos mining workers, who had contracted mesothelioma while working for Midalco, a subsidiary of CSR. Bishop was part of the team assigned to the case, which developed an argument that a company was not legally responsible for the actions of its subsidiaries. The Supreme Court of Western Australia eventually decided to pierce the corporate veil and hold CSR liable for Midalco’s actions; the lead litigant died before the conclusion of the case, which lasted eight months. After becoming a public figure, Bishop was accused by opponents of acting immorally by involving herself in the case. She has said she conducted herself ethically and professionally, and in accordance with procedural advice given by barristers Robert French and David Malcolm (both future judges).

She was married to Neil Gillion from 1983-1988. She later had relationships with such Australian political figures as Senator Ross Lightfoot and Perth Mayor Peter Nattrass.

Julie Bishop Net Worth

Julie Bishop is one of the richest Politician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Julie Bishop 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She studied law at the University of Adelaide and business at Harvard University.

Under the administration of Prime Minister John Howard, she served as both Minister for Aging and Minister for Education, Science, and Training.

Bishop was born on 17 July 1956 in Lobethal, South Australia. She is the third of four children born to Isabel Mary (née Wilson) and Douglas Alan Bishop; she has two older sisters and a younger brother. Bishop has described her parents as “classic Menzies Liberals”. Her father was a returned soldier and orchardist, while her mother’s family were sheep and wheat farmers. Both her mother and grandfather William Bishop were active in local government, serving terms as mayor of the East Torrens District Council.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Julie Bishop Dating?

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As a legal advisor to the Western Australian Development Corporation, Bishop assisted in the incorporation of several new government enterprises, including Gold Corporation (the operator of the Perth Mint), LandCorp, and Eventscorp (a division of Tourism Western Australia). Robinson Cox merged into the larger firm of Clayton Utz in 1992, and she was made managing partner of the firm’s Perth office in 1994. In the same year, she took up an appointment as chair of the state government’s Town Planning Appeal Tribunal, serving a three-year term. In 1996, Bishop attended Harvard Business School for eight weeks to complete the Advanced Management Program for senior managers. She has credited one of her lecturers there, George C. Lodge, with inspiring her to enter public life. In 1997, she was elected to the senate of Murdoch University and appointed as a director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

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Prior to the 1998 federal election, Bishop won Liberal preselection for the Division of Curtin, which takes in Perth’s western suburbs. Her preselection bid received the support of Premier Richard Court, who had earmarked her as a future member of federal cabinet. The seat had been held for 17 years by Allan Rocher, who was a personal friend of Prime Minister John Howard but had left the Liberals in 1995 to sit as an independent. Howard did not want the Liberals to run a candidate against Rocher, and refused to campaign for Bishop; however, Peter Costello and Alexander Downer both supported her candidacy and Costello launched her campaign. At the election, she reclaimed the seat for the Liberals with a large swing in her favour.

Where is Julie Bishop now?

Following her retirement from political life, Bishop took up a position on the board of the professional services company Palladium. In early August 2019 it was announced that she had agreed to take up the position of chancellor of Australian National University (ANU), commencing in January 2020.

How old is Julie Bishop?

65 years (July 17, 1956)

Is Julia Bishop Labour or liberal?

She is also the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and has served as the Member for Curtin in the House of Representatives since 1998. Minister Bishop was sworn in as Australia’s first female Foreign Minister on 18 September 2013 following four years in the role of Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Where was Julie Bishop born?

Lobethal, Australia

What does Julia Gillard do now?

In the years following her retirement, Gillard has been a visiting professor at the University of Adelaide, the Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education, and has served as the chair of the Global Partnership for Education since 2014 and as the chair of Beyond Blue since 2017.